8888 movement was a massive moment in Burma's democracy movement. Fed up with the poverty and austerity of life under a quixotic and idiotic military dictatorship and undoubtedly inspired by pro-democracy movements elsewhere in Asia, Burmese people threw the yoke of fear and rose up against the military dictatorship. This NPR article succinctly gives the timeline of events and a vivid backgrounder to the heartbreak and bitterness Burmese people feel to this day that their willful expression and voice has not been recognized nor heard.